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Oetting: Systemic US Racism Lies in the Court System, Ignored by Media
“On the left, there's very little talk in the mainstream media about the fact that the real prejudice and racism, in my opinion, that exists in the United States exist in the court system, not necessarily as much in other parts of the world.”
Oetting: Venture Capital and Private Equity Are Identical Businesses
“Venture capital is so distinct, at least culturally and, you know, in the media from private equity, because fundamentally they are very similar and really they're identical businesses done at different scale and at different times in a company's life cycle.”
Oetting: Private Equity Is More Operationally Focused Than Venture Capital
“Private equity actually has been incredibly entrepreneurial for a long period of time and really actually much more operationally focused than venture capital.”
Oetting: Standard VC fund structures barely fit modern startup exit timelines
“I think they are, but just barely. And I'm not sure that on the sort of for the best companies, they will be set up.”
Oetting: Proprietary deal flow genuinely exists at Seed and Series A
“At the C and Series A, and even sometimes Series B, these companies may not even have been written about in TechCrunch. They don't even know who they are. So I very strongly believe in proprietary deal flow at the earlier stages of the stack.”